Cue-tip fastener



Apr. 17, 1923. 1,452,420

H. J. GRENIER cum T11 FASTENER Fild Aug. 30, 1922 WITNESSES ATTORNEYS INVENTOR 564/1920 I g/[G'rerzz'er Patented Apr. 17, 1923.

UNIT D TA 1,452,429 PATENT FEGE...

HENRY roses]: crannies, or rararinan, connncrrcn'r.

CUE-TIP FASTENEB.

Application filedgd lgust 30, 1922. Serial No. 585,232.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRYJ. Gasman, a. citizen of the United States, and a resident-- This invention pertainsbroadly to billiard cues or the like .and more particularly relates to the provision of improved fastening means for a cue attachment of the kind comprising a tip and a backing element on which the tip is to be secured.

The present invention is especially directed to the provision of an improved con struction over that shown in my U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,430,500, issued September 26, 1922; in regard to a more secure attachment between the element and the tip, and more particularly in regard to greater ease and economy of manufacture so far as the element itself is concerned, as well as in regard to facilitating rapid and correct adjustment of the fastening means for the tip and backing element.

According to the construction shown in said application, flexible wire members are partly embedded in the tip which is usually of leather and have rearwardly projecting stud-like portions which are passed through transverse holes in the backing element and then bent down toward the rear face of said element to lie in radial grooves in said facewhereby a screwing down of the element on the cue end may be relied on to finally clamp down these stud-like portions but obviously only after the latter are primarily first bent considerably out of perpendicular and to extend in the general direction of such radial grooves. According to the present invention, such first bending down of the stud-like portions need not be performed at all with the great care required in the constructions just described, as will be understood here inafter.

Also, according to the previous construction just referred to, considerable expense and troubles have been encountered in the manufacture of the element, due not only to the necessity of machining the radial grooves, a difficult operation in itself, but due also to the necessity of drilling the transverse holes properly to open into said radial grooves. According to the present invention these difficulties are incidentally overcome by; the very natureof the new means to attam the Ob ects set forth in the last preceding paragraph; all. as will, be understood upon reference to the accompanying drawing,sh ow1ng a preferred embodiment of the invention.

It Will of course, be understood that said drawing is merely illustrative of one possibleexample of the invention.

In the drawing, characters refer to like parts throughout the views;

Figure 1 shows anend portion of the cue with a complete tip carrying attachment thereon, this view being partly in section.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the tip; andv Fig. 3 is a rearview of the complete at tachment when removed from the one in Fig. 1.

In carrying out my invention in accordance with the illustrated example, the cue A is formed at its front end with internal threads 4 to receive the threaded rear extension 5 of the backing element 6 to which the tip 7 is applied. By the described arrangement the element 6 with the tip 7 applied thereto may be readily secured to or detached from the cue.

Fasteners are employed for securing the tip on the element 6, which fasteners, as in my previous construction above mentioned, may be in the form of crossed wire staples 8. Extended from the rear face of the tip and thence through the tip carrying element 6 by way of transverse holes 10 and finally projecting beyond the rear face of said element are studs or stud-like portions 11 of wire members 8. The rear face of element 6 has a continuous, preferably circular groove 12 communicating with the holes 10, so that the stud-like portions 11 of the fasteners 8 may be finally bent to lie in the groove 12 as shown best in Fig. 3.

The arrangement here, too, is such that the terminals or studs 11 of the fasteners will be clamped firmly by element 6 against the front end of one A, and also within groove 12. by screwing of the extension 5 of the element 6 into the threads 4 of the cue.

It will also be seen, further, that the construction and arrangement of the parts, and one peculiar to the present invention, is well in which like reference,

adapted to attain the objects of the present Thus invention as set forth hereinabove.

the new structure permits the tip and its carrying element to be mounted on the cue end as one attachment, after the portions 11 of the fasteners are projected through and beyond the holes 10 of element 6, but before the portions 10 are considerably bent out of the perpendicular or bent in any particular direction so long as they are bent sufiiciently in any direction out of the perpendicular to resist axial separation of the tip and element 6. In this connection it will be clear that on-mounting the complete attachment on the cue by the spiral movement permitted by the co-acting threaded parts provided, each of the studs 11 is squeezed toward a greater bend and is naturally urged by relative rotation of the opposed faces of the cue and element 6 to be extended in a line intersecting a radial line of the tip, that is, generally along the line of extension of the circular groove 12 and at the same time all the studs 11 are automatically positively guided by said groove to become so extended.

I would state in conclusion that While the illustrated example constitutes a practical embodiment of my invention. I do not limit myself strictly to the exact details herein illustrated, since, manifestly, the same can be considerably varied Without departure from the spirit of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

In a cue provided with a plane terminal face in the rear of Which is a threaded portion, an attachment for the one including the combination of a tip carrying element having also a plane terminal face in the rear of which is a threaded portion, the latter to co-act With the threaded portion of the cue to mount the attachment on the cue, a tip to be secured on said element, and means for securing the tip on the element including a plurality of Wire lengths anchored in the one and extending through the ele ment and projecting beyond the latter as bendable studs upstanding from the rear face of the element at points removed from the axis of the element, and guiding and receiving means on the rear face of the element for each stud, comprising an elongated recess extending in a direction to intersect the base of said stud and also to intersect a radial line of the tip.

HENRY JOSEPH GRENIER. 

